New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has decided to take the battle to the Supreme Court over the summons issued to him by the SIT in a 2002 riots case. The apex court has admitted the application.

 

The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) had earlier summoned Narendra Modi to appear before it on March 21 in a case related to Gulbarga society riots in which former Congress MP Ehsaan Jafri and 62 others were killed.

 

BJP MLA Kalubhai Maliwad, who is also an accused in this case, moved an application before the Supreme Court through his lawyer Ram Jethmalani.

 

A three judge bench headed by Justice D K Jain directed the trial court in Ahmedabad to defer its hearing in the Gulburga society case in view of a petition filed in Gujarat High Court, which sought the transfer of the case to another trial court judge.